Plans for 'TV Everywhere' Goes Nowhere

It was dubbed "TV Everywhere." But for many TV viewers, it has had trouble going anywhere. Shalini Ramachandran has details on Lunch Break.

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I ... so ... we don't know what these TV Everywhere promises ... maybe because it just hasn't come to fruition yet ... tell us what the dream once was addition ... to saddening thing was that he be able to watch TV ... when you weren't wearing one so that means on different devices that means inside and outside the home ... and those in the effort that Comcast and Time Warner rolled out ... of a few years ago ... now the distant sounds great and we have in some cases in formats for him since I quit my Cablevision provider I can watch ... in the home on my head I can watch it when I'm on the go this is a much ... grander vision ... has run into some obstacles what are some of the primary counters that things really ... care if the sun is this technical advancement of the issues that the authenticating different devices ... and then there's also ... this very slow deal making going on because he always different each cable channel has to make its own specific deal with into the different pay TV providers like Comcast and Time Warner Cable and ... Cablevision ... so ... another part of it is that that the customer experience is something that ... the TV networks wanna hold onto and the PT for my phone on ... it seems like a technically she might be a snap compared this dealmaking picture outlined in the advertising everything seems to be a huge issue for them to read ... because I mean all the TV networks may make a lot of money off of the ad revenue that they get ... from you wanting when year cable channel and seeing those long and that reality shows ... but when it comes to a tablet Nielsen still ... doesn't measure the ratings board ... I how how many I'd also want to show ... how would a weekend in the dream the dream it has not become a reality where we had TV Everywhere ... how could we be watching the shows would it be ... going through an internet browser I pad would it be through apps can be just now figured out ... this is the lead they had to have it yet but the dream is that you can have an Comcast Fixed abt me on line you can go in and standing contest Comcast subscriber I hear my credentials ... eighteen want a bunch of different shows that a friend recently played ... but also that the issues they wanted to go to the free app so ... on ... to TV networks like HBO have HBO Go App ... Exchange Comcast explaining to an expanding and so each of the IPTV providers and TV networks could be coming up with ads for different devices and they all wanted it to be working at looking at TV and were content to their own act got to the cable providers they once they they need to go into this business because our eyeballs are going elsewhere you're seeing places like who will lead you to launching ... hundreds of exhibits and channels ... on the other hand I think they might be a little bit nervous about seeing so much control ... over to the network's who would have these apps when they get all the information about us is viewers and be able to use that maybe one day making him run around the cable companies right and that in the next big kid that ... Comcast is the kind that can afford the instate pay TV networks were not even a authenticate your app on devices that were not planning to be on next up is ... so clear Roku for example it's a box he put on top of the TV industry Netflix and Angry and ... then not authenticating HBO Go yet because they haven't been there planning the next being an only slightly